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Senator Ernest Hollings first used the name 'Buffcoat' on the floor of the U.S. Senate -- an incident believed to have inspired incidents of mispronunciation of the title characters' names.Of the title characters, Butt-head appears to be the leader of the two.He is calmer, cockier, older, and marginally less dimwitted than Beavis, but is oblivious to subtleties, semi-literate and still significantly less intelligent than the other characters in the show.…

Where do you come in butting in and making things worse?Cited from Anna Christie, by Eugene O'Neill

Lay a nail or hollow tube against the end of a fly line.Set the butt section end of a leader against the line and tube.…

But really you have been my butts far too long for me to think of becoming yours.Cited from Hypatia, by Charles Kingsley

I kept looking at all the companies whose butts we'd been kicking.And then National started organizing itself like them.…

Then I learned what my comrades were after.The first door they came to they broke down with their musket-butts.An old man was crouching behind it; and, dragging him out, they tossed him from one to another, jabbing at him with their bayonets.…Cited from The Adventures of Harry Revel, by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

The butt-spike served to balance out the spear, making it easier for soldiers to wield.The butt-spike could be used as a back-up point should the main one break.The sheer bulk and size of the spear required the soldiers to wield the spear with both hands, allowing them to carry only a shield (pelta) suspended from the neck to cover the left shoulder.…

I'm only sore because you butted in when we were so happy together here without you.Cited from Read-Aloud Plays, by Horace Holley

Butts was one of five brothers to serve in the war and the only one to be killed in action.

The picnic prospects might have been more allurin'.But I'd butted in, and this was no time to back out.Besides, I was more or less interested in sizin' up Payne Hollister.…Cited from On With Torchy, by Sewell Ford

We can only say we know somebody who butted in later.Cited from Punch, Vol. 159, August 18th, 1920, ed. by Sir Owen Seaman

He laid the block on a cracker-box, and, keeping pistol and eye still on the thief, took his watch in his left hand, as the Boy shot through the door.Butts was making a good fight for his life, but he was becoming exhausted.The leading spirits were running him down the bank to where a crooked cotton-wood leaned cautiously over the Never-Know-What, as if to spy out the river's secret.…Cited from The Magnetic North, by Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)

The Sisters of Mercy and the regular French Red Cross force seem very competent to handle the situation, and there are two government hospital ships already anchored in this port.We would only be butting in to offer our services.But down the line, from Arras south, there is real war in the trenches and many are falling every day.…Cited from Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross, by Edith Van Dyne

Why, we were doing fine, girl; we were regular pardners and I wasn't drinking a drop.I was trying to make good and show you how I loved you when he butted in on the game.He saw he couldn't beat us as long as we stood together and so he sent out that damnable Mrs. Hardesty.…Cited from Rimrock Jones, by Dane Coolidge

The Washington National Cathedral contains a large plaque dedicated to Major Archibald Butt; it can be found on the wall in the museum store.A government supply boat made of concrete was also named after Butt.It was one of nine experimental craft (all named for deceased members of the Quartermaster Corps) built by the Newport Shipbuilding Corporation in 1920 in New Bern, North Carolina.…

You'd have done it if nobody had butted in to stop you.You'll get the money to start that health-farm of yours all right.…Cited from Piccadilly Jim, by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

Wagner's older brother, Albert "Butts" Wagner, who had a brief major league career himself, is often credited with getting Honus his first tryout.Butts persuaded his manager to take a look at his younger brother.Following his brother, Wagner trained to be a barber before becoming successful in baseball.…

I don't really like dark butts too much.It's rare that I do like dark butts.…

He was lying on his face when a German soldier turned him over brutally with his gun and hit him three times on the head with the butt of his rifle.Other soldiers passing by kicked him and hit him also with the butts of their guns.Finally one of them with a single blow caused a wound of about three or four centimeters under each eye with what Dr. Weiss, head doctor and Professor of Faculty at Nancy, thinks must have been a pair of scissors.…Cited from New York Times Current History: The European War, March 1915

Just as the Captain turned to continue his questioning, Garibaldi, who had been grazing about unmolested at a little distance from the shed, saw Lucia and came bounding over to her.In her delight at finding her young mistress she very nearly succeeded in butting over the officer.Lucia had difficulty in repressing a smile, but she put her arms around the goat's neck and patted her.…Cited from Lucia Rudini, by Martha Trent